Micro-CT Volumetric Image Database Creation for Multi-scale Image Processing Algorithm Development Database creation for algorithm development in multi-disciplinary computational anatomy

摘要

This paper introduces a database of micro-structure volumetric images taken by a micro-focus X-ray CT (micro-CT) for the research on multi-disciplinary computation anatomy. Innovative research area "multi-disciplinary computational anatomy" defines the anatomy on the four distinct called time-axis, space-axis, function-axis and pathological axis. Among these axes, multi-disciplinary computation anatomy focuses on multi-scale structure analysis and multi-scale image registration. This scale axis spans in the order of 10~2 to 10~3 image resolution scales. Multi-scale image database, which can become the target of the multi-disciplinary computation anatomy, has not been sufficiently investigated yet. Moreover, three-dimensional micro-structure image database has not been constructed for multi-disciplinary computational anatomy. To provide some database for promoting multi-scale image processing research, this study introduces micro CT image database, which stores 50μm to 10μ-scale volumetric images of several specimens. Each specimen is taken at several scanning resolutions.